Happy New Year! As we roll into 2022 we all are wide eyed with our intentions for a bright, fresh, new year. I hope we can get through the pandemic with patience, perseverance, and resilience. Before the internet I used to do artwork more readily. Now I seem to get…

If boredom is a problem, allow it to be a problem. When you are bored and you go immediately to your phone to scroll and alleviate the boredom, you are missing a great opportunity to discover joy. Yes, there is a sense of joy in scrolling; I do it also…

I have been downsizing for the past year and a half after living in my home for over 30 years. It has been truly a challenge, as I have collected things, and art supplies that I have saved for over 20 years. Having worked in my studio, that is detached…

Audio journaling is a good alternative to writing in a journal. I have about 20 different handwritten journals in spiral notebooks over the past 20 years that have really helped my state of mind as a way to reflect and see what I was thinking at that given moment in…

A couple Days ago I needed to get one of my house window screens repaired as it was bent and wouldn’t fit in the window frame. My local hardware store offered screen replacements and rescreening. The store is just down the street from where I live so it was an…

Photo by Alexandra Gorn Procrastination is a normal part of the creative process. There is a positive flip side to procrastination, and it’s percolation. Procrastination feels heavy, and has a sense of pressure to get to it. Whereas, percolation is lighter, more forgiving, more airy, and easy going. You want…

This block is all too common, especially for Westerners. The dominant culture places much pressure on us to be perfectly successful, to have it all, and perform all the time. As a result of constantly striving for getting things exactly right all the time, we are at great risk of becoming…

Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash I was at the gas station this morning pumping gas and the simple act of pumping gas became an incident of information overload.. Just going to the gas station is a chore, but it can be nice to get out of the house. So…

I have 4 very large windows that are from ceiling to floor. They are used for solar gain heat that emanates into the living room in the winter. The sun slants lower in the winter and my windows are facing due south. On sunny days here in northern New Mexico…